[Gridflow-dev] [PD-dev] ATI + GridFlow + Gem + C++ + Linux = BOOM (fwd)

[Mathieu Bouchard]

fyi

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Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:30:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>, pd-dev at iem.at
Subject: [PD-dev] ATI + GridFlow + Gem + C++ + Linux = BOOM


Hi Hans,

Could we please get Pd-extended to link the "pd" executable to libstdc++.so ? 
Afaik, this is a fix for a possibly wide category of problems but that is 
currently only "known" to affect GridFlow when loading GEM while the driver 
named "fglrx" is in use (ATI video).

AFAIK, this problem affects any lib that uses the "throw" keyword in C++ code, 
whenever the ATI driver is loaded _before_ the standard library of C++, in 
which case it will provide its own version of a portion of the C++ standard 
library, which is incompatible (sort of like the DLL Hell on Windows). This 
driver is typically loaded by anything linked to OpenGL directly or indirectly 
(usually GEM, but could also be 3DP, OpenSceneGraph, etc)

So, what I'm asking, is to link Pd itself to a library that it doesn't need, in 
order to force the bug out, so that this problem doesn't have to be addressed 
anywhere else. I believe that it is far easier to prevent this bug from the Pd 
executable than to make any kind of elaborate circus with the loading-order of 
pdsettings and pdrc and a little dummy .pd_linux (which has -lstdc++ without 
using it, and has an empty _setup).

If you want, you can think of it as the first step for putting GridFlow in 
pd-extended.

diff from Claude:

------------------8<--------cut-here--------8<------------------
--- pd-0.41-4/src/makefile.in.orig      2008-03-15 00:03:00.000000000 +0000
+++ pd-0.41-4/src/makefile.in   2009-08-23 18:55:35.000000000 +0100
  -121,7 +121,7 @@
         $(CC) $(CFLAGS)  $(STRIPFLAG) -o $(BIN_DIR)/pdreceive u_pdreceive.c

  $(PDEXEC): $(OBJ) $(BIN_DIR)
-       cd ../obj;  $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(DBG_CFLAGS) -o $(PDEXEC) $(OBJ) $(LIB)
+       cd ../obj;  $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(DBG_CFLAGS) -o $(PDEXEC) $(OBJ) $(LIB) 
-lstdc++

  $(BIN_DIR)/pd-gui: $(GOBJ) $(GSRC)
         cd ../obj; $(CC) $(INCLUDE) -o $(BIN_DIR)/$(GUINAME) $(GOBJ) $(GLIB)
------------------8<--------cut-here--------8<------------------

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